Statistics Norway

Foreign-controlled enterprises' activity in Norway, structural statistics

4 Enterprises under foreign control1, 2, by country of ultimate owner3. 20065 (Corrected 21 September 2009)
  Number of enterprises Number of persons employed Personell costs Turnover Production value Value added at factor cost Total purchases of goods and services Purchases of goods purchased for resale in the same condition as received Gross investment4
      NOK million
Total 4 831  263 859  132 954 1 035 245  794 631  373 048  650 587  256 930 76 108
                   
Nordic contries 2 547  116 694 51 801  307 845  210 682 78 135  220 410  100 252 9 614
EU countries 3 925  189 618 89 995  659 494  487 149  215 044  431 548  181 377 42 291
OECD contries 4 155  245 724  123 739  985 211  751 337  357 058  616 055  249 354 66 517
                   
United States  498 50 595 31 356  285 614  232 409  134 751  151 683 59 902 21 247
France  157 13 729 7 610 84 039 79 777 53 842 34 102 7 739 13 854
Sweden 1 584 69 252 31 292  190 192  129 731 48 152  140 775 62 233 5 155
Great Britain and N-Ireland  588 26 751 15 063  106 465 84 037 29 337 74 251 23 489 4 982
Netherlands  197 16 336 7 009 89 408 61 430 25 121 59 652 28 974 9 058
Denmark  702 30 344 12 604 69 311 53 985 19 029 41 918 16 226 3 725
Italy 36  762  595 21 402 20 179 15 662 5 952 1 436 2 619
Germany  279 13 402 7 071 45 851 27 115 11 643 34 396 18 911 2 040
Finland  229 16 462 7 563 46 675 25 912 10 537 36 440 21 153  708
Switzerland  130 14 679 6 191 25 213 18 783 8 226 17 126 6 566  858
Canada 33 3 235 2 047 28 042 27 988 5 385 22 756  151 6 697
Japan 33 1 504  891 14 653 8 147 3 987 10 531 6 449 1 040
Hong Kong 18  707  637 7 065 7 184 2 805 4 399 27 2 225
1  Subsidiary enterprises under direct or indirect control by foreign enterprises.
2  Sections E Electricity, gas and water supply and J Financial intermediation are not included.
3  The enterprise in the ownership chain which is not controlled by another enterprise.
4  Aquistion of tangible assets (ev fixed).
5  Figures for 2006 have been amended based on updated information on foreign ownership.

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